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By Quimby Melton
‘ “One Flock, One Shepherd” is
the subject of this week’s Inter
national Sunday School lesson.
Background Scripture is John
• 10.
The Memory Selection is, “My
sheep hear my voice, and I know
them, they follow me: And I
- give unto them eternal life; and
they shall never perish, neither
shall any man pluck them out
of my hand.” (John 10:27-28.)
Os all ways that Christ’s con
cern for mankind is described in
the Gospels that of a shepherd is
best known and best loved. John
and the other writers of the Gos
► ’ pels lived in an agrarian day.
Everyone knew the concern of
a "good shepherd” for the flock
he tended. In fact for centuries
fbefdte their day the chief sour
ce of livelihood for the people
came from the farm, and the
pasturd lands.
Moses and his collegues were
known as shepherds; Ezekiel and
Zechariah called corrupt lead
ers of the government and cor
rupt leaders in the temple “fal
se shepherds.”
David was called a shepherd
in Psalm 78:71-72; ana it was
King David who wrote the Shep
t herds Psalm —23rd Psalm —
: in which God is described as the
Shepherd of all mankind. The
23rd Psalm is probably one of
< the best known and best loved
chapters in the Bible.
What Jesus said about the
good shepherd in this lesson has
, been called the New Testament
version of the 23rd Psalm.
Christians often feel that though
this Psalm was written long be
fore the coming of Jesus Christ
V that it refers to Jesus as the
F good shepherd, though it begins
“The Lord Is My Shepherd.”
This is as it should be for it is
* the same God who spoke to
mankind later through the in
carnate Son of God.
— q. —
• This layman never thinks of
the 23rd Psalm that he is not im
pressed with the statement “Tire
Lord is MY Shepherd.” — The
• pronoun “MY” makes God my
personal shepherd. Then, as he
thinks along this line and thanks
God that he can claim Him, he
thinks of The Lord’s Prayer,
with begins with “OUR Father
who art in Heaven”; the plural
“OUR” attesting that God is the
Father of all. There is no room
• for any selfishness in the hearts
of any of us when it comes to
God the Father.
Every man needs a Good
f Shepherd to look after him. Life
" is so full of temptations that a
confused world needs a shep
herd to show the way. And re
, member Jesus Christ Himself
said “I am the way, the truth
and the light.”
— + —
• In the text book this layman
largely relies on, Charles Lay
man, tells of William O. Weldon
reporting that the distinguish
red scientist Sir James Simp
son, who discovered that chloro
form had anesthetic value,
was asked to single out his gr
* eatest discovery. Everyone ex
pected him to say chloroform
as an anesthetic. Instead, he re
piled, “The greatest discovery
I ever made was the discovery
• that I have a Savior.”
William Bradburg, the writer
of many hymns, said the great
est hymn he had ever written
, was one with the verse:
“Savior like a shepherd lead
Us,
“Much we need Thy tender
care;
“In thy pleasant pastures feed
us,
"For our use thy folds pre
part.”
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When the Bible tells us that
the Good Shepherd knows His
* sheep by name, It means that
he knows all about us; our weak
ness, our strength, our doubts
and our fears; but He still
loves us and yearns to take us
• in His arms and into His fold.
There is a story of a Chinese
convert to Christianity. Hi s
name was Lo. When he first he
* ard read “Lo, I am with you
always” (Matthew 28:20), he ex
laimed that Jesus was speak
ng directly to him.
• One may be named Tom, Dick
ar Harry or whatnot, but Jesus
Christ in this message is say
ng to every person that He is
• vith them, loving them, hoping
hey will see the light, and that
te will be with them always and
Iways.
Hie boy, Samuel, realized this,
‘ he older repentant thief on the
ross, realized this: as did old
r and better educated men, like
oseph of Aramathea ana Nico
• emus.
How about each of us?
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Crime Prevention
Terry Wynne of the Griffin Exchange Club and Mayor Kimsey Stewart (both seat
ed) talk over the observance of Crime Prevention Week sponsored by the Nation
al Exchange organization. Participating in the program included Sheriff Dwayne
Gilbert, Police Chief Leo Blackwell and Sgt. R. H. Holcombe of the Griffin
State Patrol Post. The Griffin Exchange Club carried out a number of special
projects during the week.
Demo Chairman Predicts:
4 As The South Goes,
So Will The Nation’
ATLANTA (UPI) — Demo
cratic National Chairman John
M. Bailey bid for recapture of
straying “one-issue Democrats”
today with a prediction “as
the South goes in ‘6B, so will
the nation.”
Bailey used a six-state South
ern Regional Democratic Work
shop as his forum for an at
tack on Vietnam dissenters and
the peace candidacy of Sen.
Eugene J. McCarthy, D-Minn.
“I know there are some one
issue Democrats in this part of
the country just as there are
one-issue Democrats every
where else,” Bailey told the
Southern party workers.
“These Democrats who are
presently off the reservation
represent one of the keys to
Democratic victory in ‘68,” he
said. Bailey said the big job
ahead is to bring them back.
"Now there is a saying,
mostly among Republicans,
that this year the Deep South
is going to support the GOP.
But I’m convinced the vast ma
jority of the South...is going
Democratic.
"My guess is that as the
South goes in ‘6B, so will the
nation.”
The campaign strategy meet
ing embraced Alabama, Flor
ida, Georgia, Louisiana, Missis
sippi and South Carolina, plus
the Canal Zone, the Virgin Is
lands and Puerto Rico.
In his prepared text he did
not mention that Florida re
cently elected a Republican
governor or that the other
states supported Republican
Barry M. Goldwater in 1964.
Instead he defended President
Johnson’s Vietnam policies and
launched his attack on “some
one-issue Democrats” who are
dissenting over the war.
"Some one-issue Democrats
disagree with the President’s
policies in Vietnam,” Bailey
said. "These are, for the mo
ment, Americans for Demo
cratic Action (ADA) or Sen.
McCarthy Democrats.
“I predict most of them will
be standing right beside you
and me after President John
son and Vice President Humph
rey are renominated this sum-
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mer.”
Bailey said a "few diehards”
in ADA leadership positions had
pushed through a resolution
supporting McCarthy over Pres
ident Johnson and this has
"torn the organization apart.”
"Sometimes dieh ard s get
overemotlonal,” Bailey said,
“and this isn’t the first time.”
The ADA endorsed Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower over
President Truman in 1948 and
now is “trying to dump a
moderate but practical Presi
dent Johnson...,” Bailey said.
“And get this: the man the
ADA is now endorsing, Sen.
McCarthy, himself reportedly
quit the ADA in 1960 because
he didn’t like what he consid
ered the ADA’s premature sup-
Senate Committee Tackles
House-Passed Budget Bill
By MARGIE RASMUSSEN
ATLANTA (UPD—The Senate
Appropriations Committee, har
ried from a week of hearings
on the 1969 budget, tackles the
House-passed $858.1 million fis
cal bill today but probably will
postponed any voting until Mon
day.
Chairman Lamar Plunkett
said unless committeemen
wanted to make some final
budget decisions before the
weekend, he would prefer vot
ing in one lortg session Monday,
putting the bill on the Senate
floor Wednesday —a day later
than he originally planned.
A few disputed items prom
ised to liven up the tedious job
of comparing the House version
of the bill to that submitted by
Gov. Lester Maddox and finally
arriving at a Senate-approved
measure.
One of them, a $480,000 cut
for the State Planning Bureau
Maddox described as "critical,”
gained steam Thursday when
Planning Director Oliver Welch
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port of President John F. Ken
nedy.”
The ADA opposition to John
son "doesn’t make sense,”
Bailey said, because Johnson
has done more than any mod
ern president to accomplish the
Democratic Party’s biggest
aims.
"The big issue with these
people, of course, is Vietnam.
They say, ‘end the war.’ But
they don’t say how. If the
United States will not stand
against those who seek to dom
inate others by force, who
will?”
Bailey pictured the President
as a man who is gaining popu
lar support by withstanding
"waves of criticism” and doing
what he considers right regard
less of "poll popularity.”
angrily told the committee they
“would be well advised” to do
away with the bureau unless the
funds are restored.
Some senators appeared in
clined to give the brand new
bureau a slight increase to in
sure its existence next year,
but a House budget leader said
the whole appropriation, grant
ed in a lump sum, was a "mis
take” he planned to correct.
And Legislative Counsel
Frank Edwards was checking
to see whether a Maddox veto
of the lesser amount would give
the department the same mon
ey it had last year, more than
it would have under the House
bill, or nothing at all. A Senate
subcommittee was also studying
the department request.
The planning agency, which
clears state and federal de
velopment projects, has "grown
like Topsy,” said Sen. Paul
Broun of Athens. "Have you
completed any plans worth a
nickel to the state?"
Broun also asked about an
Reserves Mobilization
Eyed For Viet Buildup
Marine Corps
Will Draft
Men In April
By DONALD H. MAY
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
Joint Chiefs of Staff has
recommended mobilizing nearly
50,000 reservists and National
Guardsmen if President John
son decides on a further
Vietnam buildup. It was also
learned today the Marine Corps
Will draft men in April for the
first time in two years.
The Joint Chiefs’ recommen
dation for mobilizing additional
reserves would include the first
call-up of ground troops since
the start of the Vietnam War.
The Marines, who are bearing
the brunt of the burden of
defense at the outposts of Khe
Sanh and Con Thien along the
Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam,
are being forced to take in
draftees to get their authorized
strength up to 302,000 men. The
corps took in draftees in World
War II and the Korean War but
has not asked for any since
March, 1966.
Submitted To McNamara
The proposal by the Joint
Chiefs for an "across the
board” mobilization of reserves
was submitted to Defense
Secretary Robert S. McNamara.
It would include National
Guardsmen as well as Army,
Marine, Navy and Air reser
vists, informed sources said.
President Johnson is presu
mably aware of the proposal,
but sources said it has not been
formally submitted to the White
House. The chairman of the
Joint Chiefs, Gen. Earle G.
Wheeler, is now in Saigon and
one of the reasons for his trip is
to discuss manpower needs with
Gen. William C. Westmoreland,
the U.S. commander in Viet
nam.
The proposal made by the
chiefs also would Involve
placing additional reservists—
perhaps more than 100,000 —on
special alert for possible
mobilization later if needed.
Johnson has not at this point
authorized any increase in the
present troop ceiling of 525,000,
sources said. There are about
500,000 troops in Vietnam now
and an additional 10,500 soldiers
and Marines are on the way.
No Decision Yet
No decision on increasing the
U.S. troop commitment is
expected until Wheeler returns
to Washington next week. The
Joint Chiefs’ proposal to call up
"under 50,000” reserves ap
parently was a flat recommen
dation.
But sources said the proposal
was prepared in case the
decision was made to increase
the size of the U.S. force in
Vietnam.
’ unfavorable audit report, which
i prompted Welch to shout that
he requested the audit when he
first took over the agency to
discover its "deficiencies” car
ried over from the Department
of Industryand Trade.
Welch charged State Auditor
Ernest Davis failed to give him
requested accounting and man
agement information.
“This is a department we can
ill afford to lose,” said Admln
: istrative Floor Leader Frank
' Coggin later. Each senator can
make up his own mind about it
without depending on what they
heard today."
House Appropriations Chair
man James (Sloppy) Floyd said
: the legislature ‘‘acted too hasti
ly” in approving the bill creat
i ing the department and "it was
• a mistake to let (its budget)
i out without line items.”
1 Closing down the bureau, he
I said, "might be a good idea. I
. didn't know we were giving
them that much power as a
i part of the executive branch.
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House Fire
Griffin firemen were called to a house fire this morning on East Slaton. The blaze
started in a closet next to a fireplace. The closet and some of its contents were
damaged by fire. The house was occupied by Daisy Akin.
Await Decision
Marines Halt Advance
On Imperial Palace
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPD—U.S. Marines
today halted their advance on
the Imperial Palace in Hue to
await a political decision from
Saigon on whether to use
artillery and air strikes against
this final objective or attack
without support, heedless of the
heavy cost.
Fighting continued in the
ancient capital and South
Vitnamese rangers killed 106
Communists in the ruins of the
palace outer grounds and
another 223 of a Communist
battalion trying to break
through Allied lines and rein
force the Viet Cong who have
held out for 24 days.
UPI correspondent Robert
Ibrahim reported from Hue that
Marines of the Ist Battalion, sth
Regiment, were originally or-
to go into every city, county,
and even railroad and harass
them or try to take over.”
Floyd promised if the Senate
Increased the $324,000 appropri
ation approved by the House to
run the bureau, "It’s going to
be a battle, because I’m going
to be persistent” in support of
the House action.
University Chancellor George
L. Simpson was recalled to the
group to tell what effects a new
draft deferment policy might
have on his budget. Federal of
ficials said graduate students
other than those in medicine or
dentistry will lose deferments.
Simpson said any reduction in
the 3,881 graduate student en
rollment would be equaled or
surpassed by Increased teaching
costs. Graduate students now
frequently are part-time in
structors, and officials of three
major Georgia universities esti
mated it would cost hundreds
of thousands of dollars to re
place them with fulltime facul
ty-
dered to sweep the eastern
section of the walled city north
to south and as far west as the
wall of the Imperial Palace set
inside the walled Citadel.
They reached the south wall
of Tire Citadel Thursday and
planted an American flag on
top.
Leave Buller Zone
Because of heavy covering
fire from the wall of the palace
the Marines left a buffer zone
one block deep fronting on the
open ground around the palace.
Today they hoped to carry out a
final sweep through those
houses still held by North
Vietnamese troops.
But the Marines delayed their
final assault until they receive
permission to use heavy artille
ry or air strikes on the palace
walls. Fire from the walls could
make even more costly this
bloodiest battle of the Vietnam
War.
Ibrahhn said the Marines
apparently want either permis
sion to use whatever weapons
they consider necessary or a
firm order committing them to
battle without that air and
artillery support against one of
the architectural treasures of
the Orient. The decision became
political because of the emotion
al value to the South Vietna
mese of the palace with its
great treasures.
District DE
Semi - Finals
Here Saturday
Students from 11 schools will
participate in Distributive Edu
cation semi-finals to be held
Saturday morning at Griffin
School.
Students who are winners In
the contests here Saturday will
participate In the state finals to
be held In March at the DE State
Convention in Atlanta.
Local business and profession
al men have been chosen to jud
ge the contests. Griffin High DE
students will compete In all
contests.
Snow Second
Os Week Here
Snow fell in Griffin area today
for the second time this week.
Weather Observer Horace
Westbrooks measured a half
inch of snow here Wednesday
night.
Today’s was about the fifth
time show has fallen in thi s
area during the current winter
season.
The weather forecast warned
that hazardous driving condi
tions might result from the
snow.
Weather:
FORECAST FOR GRIFFIN
AREA — Cloudy and cold Sat
urday with some snow likely
tonight. Hazardous driving warn.
Ings tonight.
LOCAL WEATHER — Maxi
mum today 38, minimum today
31, maximum Thursday 48, mini
mum Thursday 17. Sunrise Sat
urday 7:16 a.m., sunset Satur
day 6:32 p.m.
Country Parson
“It’s too bad so few things
we buy turn out as wonder
ful as the payments do aw
ful.”